Department of Psychological Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 135 H-SS, 500 W. 14th St., Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.
Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA.
Behav Res Methods. 2021 Feb;53(1):34-48. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01411-6.
Famous musical melodies, such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Hot Cross Buns," are frequently used in psychological research. Such melodies have been used to assess the degree of cognitive impairments in various neurological disorders, and to investigate differences between "naming" vs. "knowing." Despite their utility as an experimental stimulus, there is currently no standardized, openly available set of famous musical melodies based on a United States population, as prior work on the topic has primarily relied on creating stimuli in an ad hoc manner. Therefore, the goal of the present work was to create a set of famous musical melodies. Here, we describe the development of the Famous Melodies Stimulus Set, a set of 107 melodies. We provide normative data for the melodies on five dimensions: familiarity, age of acquisition, emotional valence, emotional arousal, and naming ability. Participants (N = 397) rated the melodies on these five variables, validating that most melodies were highly familiar and reliably named. While familiarity ratings were skewed, all other rating scales covered a relatively broad range, allowing for researchers to select melodies for future work based on particular attributes.
著名的音乐旋律，如“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”和“Hot Cross Buns”，经常被用于心理学研究。这些旋律被用于评估各种神经障碍中的认知损伤程度，并研究“命名”与“知道”之间的差异。尽管它们作为实验刺激很有用，但目前还没有基于美国人群的标准化、公开可用的著名音乐旋律集，因为之前关于该主题的研究主要依赖于临时创建刺激。因此，本研究的目标是创建一套著名的音乐旋律。在这里，我们描述了著名旋律刺激集（Famous Melodies Stimulus Set）的开发过程，这是一个包含 107 首旋律的集合。我们提供了这些旋律在五个维度上的规范数据：熟悉度、习得年龄、情绪效价、情绪唤醒和命名能力。参与者（N=397）对这些旋律进行了这五个变量的评分，验证了大多数旋律都非常熟悉且可以可靠地命名。虽然熟悉度评分存在偏倚，但其他所有评分量表都涵盖了相对较宽的范围，使研究人员能够根据特定属性选择未来工作的旋律。
